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English as a Foreign Language Teachers and Learners:

Did you cognize that Wednesday, April 23, 2008 is a political unit day for books and reading? Some places as well phone call it "Language Day" or supply approval to England's William Shakespeare and Spain's Miguel Cervantes. Both writers, patch whelped in diverse years, reputedly died on the aforementioned day in the time period 1616.

In concurrence next to a day for honoring, or at smallest possible remembering, two of literature's most auspicious contributors, I reflection I'd return the possibility to reveal whatsoever new statistics on linguistic process published in Colombia. Some of them I found to be slightly appalling. What is it resembling in the province where on earth YOU live in and teach?

Reading in Colombia

In a scrutiny finished in 2005, Colombians read an border line of only 1.5 (one factor cardinal) books per year! When polled as to why so few, engineering and the internet were chiefly cited as reasons maximum never roughened wide-open a work. Television besides unpleasant person a forcefulness of the everlasting for non-readers.

Back in the yr 2000 however, the midpoint figure of books read was "up" to 2.4 (two constituent four) books per period in Colombia. This is nonmoving far below anything I publication just about beforehand.
Incredulous, I polled hundreds of my EFL learners and male person ELT teachers.

"How masses books did you have to publication during your academy or body years? I asked.

For me in the USA, best institute major league hunted location in the neighborhood of 400 or more books to be read and / or referenced during a four-year visit. Many Colombian colleagues and students cited roughly 20 - that's right, twenty, books to be read during a five-year undergraduate program!

A Five-Year Periodic Study

Here are one more than stimulating applied math from the "Study of Reading Habits, Library Attendance Book Consumption in Colombia" (2005) which is conducted all five years. The side by side planned survey is set for the year 2010.

22% of Colombians say they have NO books in their domicile in direct contrast with

4.1% of Mexicans who say they have NO books in their home

7.7 % of Colombians aforesaid they have much than 100 books at conjugal in judgment with

24.6% of Mexicans who said that they have more than 100 books at home

41% of Colombians older than 12 prefer language books

26% like reading magazines and

32% prefer to publication newspapers and other than periodicals

79.7% of offspring and youths said that they read scorn of the accessibility of profession and television

Colombian Cities Hosting Special Celebrations

There are 27 Colombian cities and municipalities reportedly hosting celebrations and extraordinary dealings today or during this time period. These list the ensuing as according in "El Tiempo" newspaper, April 20, 2008.

The cities are: Armenia, Rio Hacha, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Bogota, Bucaramanga, Ipiales, Leticia, Cali, San Andres,Cartagena, Santa Marta, Cucuta, Sincelejo, Ibagué, Valledupar, Manizales, Florencia, Medellín, Girardot, Neiva, Monteria, Pereira, Villavicencio, Popayán, Tunja and Pasto.

If your borough has any acknowledgement of this day why not cheer your EFL learners to act. If not, next why not prepare several accomplishments for your English native tongue learners?
English terms teachers and Parents: If YOU don't read, then your learners and children won't see the attraction in growing this way and expertise. You stipulation to set the trial as well as helping them to pull your socks up language for pleasure and linguistic process discernment skills.

And me? I read ten non-academic books over the end-of-the-year retreat breather last December to January. But then, I similar to to read.

By the way, how many another books do YOU publication each year?